History of Nsg Res

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HISTORY OF NURSING

RESEARCH


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1850s: Florence Nightingale studiednursing care during the Crimean War.

She called for research that focused onnursing practice.

Nightingale admonished nurses todevelop the habit of making andrecording observations systematically.

She recorded observations in asystematic way and used statistics toclearly illustrate her findings.


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1902: Lavinia Dock reported a school

nurse experiment that was begun by

Lillian Wald. Nurses gave free care to school children

and visited the homes of sick children.


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1906: Adelaide Nutting conducted a

survey of the educational status of

nursing.

1909: The first university-based nursing

program was established at theUniversity of Minnesota.


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1923: A well-known study of nursing and

nursing education was conducted by the

Committee for the Study of NursingEducation and funded by the Rockefeller

Foundation.

This study is frequently referred to as theGoldmark Report.


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1924: The first doctoral program for

nurses was established in 1924 at

Teachers College, Columbia University. The EdD degree was offered to nurses

preparing to teach at the college level.


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1927: Jean Broadhurst and her

colleagues reported a research

investigation on handwashing

procedures.

Edith S. Bryan became the first nurse to

earn a doctoral degree when she

received a PhD in psychology and

counseling from Johns Hopkins

University.


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1928: Ethel Johns and Blanche

Pfefferkorn published a study concerning

the activities in which nurses wereinvolved.

This study was one of the first of many

studies that focused on nurses.


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1932: Elizabeth Ryan and Virginia B.

Miller investigated thermometer-

disinfecting techniques.

1936: Sigma Theta Tau, National Honor

Society for Nursing, began fundingnursing research.


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1948: Esther Lucille Brown, a social

anthropologist, published her famous

study on nursing education, Nursing forthe Future, which called for nursing

education to take place in university

settings.


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1949: The Division of Nursing Resources

was organized within the U.S. Public

Health Service. Esta H. McNett demonstrated the

usefulness of masks in preventing the

spread of tuberculosis.


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1952

: The first issue ofNursing Researchwas published.

1953: The Institute of Research andService in Nursing Education was

founded at Teachers College, Columbia

University. This unit had a full-time staff involved in

the study of nursing and nursing

education.


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1955: The American Nurses Foundation

was established with the goal of

promoting high-level wellness and theimprovement of patient care.

This foundation provides funds for

nursing research.


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1957

: The first unit directed primarilytoward research in nursing practice was

established at the Department of Nursing

of the Walter Reed Army Institute of

Research.

The Western Council for Higher

Education in Nursing (WCHEN) sponsoreda nursing research conference at the

University of Colorado.


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1962: The federally supported Nurse

Scientist Graduate Training Grants

Programs were begun.

1963: Lydia Hall published her 5-year

study of chronically ill patients who werecared for at the Loeb Center in New York.


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1970: The National Commission for the

Study of Nursing and Nursing Education,

established by the American NursesAssociation (ANA) and the National

League for Nursing (NLN), published the

results of a 3-year study on nursing.


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1972: The ANA established a Department

of Nursing Research.

1974: At its national convention, the ANA

delineated nursing practice as the area to

which nursing research should bedirected in the next decade.


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1976: The Commission on Nursing

Research of the ANA recommended that

research preparation be included inundergraduate, graduate, and continuing

education programs.


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1977: The Veterans Administrationbegan employing nurse researchers.

1978: The first issue ofResearch in

Nursing and Health was published.

1979: The first issue ofWestern Journal

of Nursing Research was published.


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1980: The Commission on Nursing

Research of the ANA set up a list of

research priorities for the 1980s.

1982: Eleven volumes were published of

the work of the Conduct and Utilizationof Research in Nursing (CURN) project.


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1983: The first Center for Nursing

Research was established.

It encompassed the American NursesFoundation and the American Academy

of Nursing.


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1986: The National Center for NursingResearch (NCNR) was established within

the National Institutes of Health.

1987: Dr. Ada Hinshaw, director of the

NCNR, called for nursing organizations to

identify their research priorities.


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1988: The NCNR convened the first

Conference on Research Priorities

(CORP #1) to establish research prioritiesthrough 1994.

The first issues ofApplied Nursing

Research and Nursing Science Quarterlywere published.


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1992: The first issue ofClinical Nursing

Research was published.

1993: The National Institute of Nursing

Research (NINR) was established within

the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

This organization replaced the NCNR.


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1993: The second Conference on

Research Priorities (CORP #2) was held to

establish research priorities for 1995

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1994: The first issue ofQualitative

Nursing Research was published.


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1997: The International Council of Nurses

convened a group of experts to establish

worldwide nursing research priorities.

1999: The first issue ofBiological

Research for Nursing was published.


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2001: The budget for NINR reachedalmost $90 million.

2004: The first issue ofWorldviews onEvidence-Based Nursing was published.

2005: The budget for NINR was over$138 million.

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